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He lost his temper and ran away, and the maids and grandmothers were so anxious to chase after him.

Pomegranate heard the movement, and couldn't help but look at the door, Mrs. Tong said, "It's okay, it must be the girls who catch the strings and go back to practice." ”

"Yes, the slave maid heard that the young lady mentioned it to the queen mother in the palace." Pomegranate answered.

Mrs. Tong sighed: "I don't know what Guowei thinks, in the early years, this child was unruly, but now she suddenly changed her attitude, forcing her to learn the rules and learn skills every day, where can she sit still, and make trouble at home all day long, this family is no longer what it used to be." ”

Pomegranate said: "Old lady, slave maid ......"

"Pomegranate, you will be my daughter from now on, don't call yourself a slave anymore." Mrs. Tong held the pomegranate's hand and said, "Looking at you is like seeing Xi'er." ”

Pomegranate felt sour in her heart, but if she had to say something, she still had to say: "I hope you will persuade the second master not to use Miss Tilting to think about it." Otherwise, the emperor's affection for the queen mother, and the queen's shrewdness and calmness, will only make the Tong family suffer. ”

Mrs. Tong thought for a moment and said gently: "Pomegranate, from now on you are my daughter, whether you want to serve me for the rest of your life, marry someone, or live elsewhere, I will not stop you." But one thing, from this day on, forget everything you see and hear in the Forbidden City. In this way, it is really the grace of the emperor and the queen to you. ”

"What do you mean, old lady?" Pomegranate asked, reflecting on what she had just said.

"Kid, listen to me, forget it." Mrs. Tong said with a smile, "Let's be companions, live well for Yuan Xi, and see that Daqing is strong and prosperous in the hands of the emperor." ”

Pomegranate said with tears in her eyes: "Madam, the slave understands. ”

In the Forbidden City, the matter of the change of the palace maid in Kunning Palace has been muttered for several days, and Ling Zhao will stare at Sange a few times every time he goes to the middle palace to talk back, but he is just a gentle and steady subordinate, and there is nothing special.

The queen also inadvertently mentioned to Lingzhao that Sange was originally a girl in her mother's room, and she grew up to be married to the housekeeper's son, and her ancestors had been on errands in Hesheri's house for generations.

This time, the family heard that Pomegranate was going back to Tong's house to take care of the old lady for a while, and they were worried about her postpartum recuperation, so they sent Sange, who had experience in childbirth.

"We are all the same, and the family is afraid that we will not eat and sleep well in the palace." At that time, Shu Shu said to Lingzhao, "Grandmother is old, and now she is lying down for most of the day, and she has no energy to play, and the rest of her spirit is thinking about her children and grandchildren, I don't want her to worry about it, so I agreed." ”

At this point, what else can Ling Zhao say.

Since the eldest princess Yatu suddenly returned to Beijing, Lingzhao understood that the queen would not explain everything to herself, and even the queen mother, who was so weak, warned her this time not to care about the affairs of Kunning Palace.

Today, Lingzhao came to Kunning Palace again, and it happened that the second elder brother came with his brother, and the queen walked around the house with her son, making him happy with a rattle.

Raising his eyes and seeing Lingzhao coming, Shu Shu smiled: "I'm awake, do you want to hug?" ”

Ling Zhao shook his head: "The concubine can't hold the child, the little brother is still so soft, the concubine is afraid of hurting him." ”

Shu Shu walked over generously, hugged Lingzhao to look at the child, and said, "Isn't it more beautiful than when you were born?" They all say that Chenghu looks like me, you see? ”

"The concubine looks like you." Ling Zhao was perfunctory, and then said solemnly, "The concubine is here to discuss with you the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager." ”

"What year is it?"

"February of the eleventh year of Kangxi." Ling Zhao said, "Two years were spent on preparation, and the concubines didn't know if they could do it in time, so they were very worried." ”

Shu Shu handed Chenghu to the nurse, asked Lingzhao to sit down, and said: "Two years should be enough, but the imperial grandmother has always been thrifty, and she has never been willing to make the palace spend a lot of trouble for her personal affairs. ”

"The Empress Dowager's 60th birthday, if you don't celebrate, you really can't say it." Ling Zhao said, "Taking into account the dignity of the emperor, the concubine thinks that the empress dowager must agree, but it is just above the degree, and it cannot go against the wish of the empress dowager." ”

"It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, she is holding on to the silver, and she wants you to have a decent birthday, how to make it." Shu Shu said, "It's better for you to estimate a number, I will go to Cining Palace with you to ask for a decree, how can I coax the Empress Dowager to agree." ”

Ling Zhao ordered Dongyun to present the fold and said: "The concubines looked through the old files of the former Ming Dynasty left in the palace, referred to the scale of their birthday banquets, according to the preferences of the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, and the expenses of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve in recent years, estimated this amount, and asked the Empress Dowager to look at it. ”

Shu Shu looked at the fold, he remembered carefully every pen on it, and Ling Zhao's estimated cost was 200,000 taels of silver, which was already carefully calculated to the extreme.

"Even the renovation of Cining Palace is counted?" Shu Shu asked.

"Yes, but whether it is repaired or not, I still have to ask the Queen Mother to nod." Ling Zhao said, "In addition, the construction of a palace elsewhere, as a place for the empress dowager to recuperate and relax, is also in the imagination of the concubines, but these things must be decided by the emperor." ”

"You go to the Qianqing Palace and ask the emperor." Shu Shu handed the fold to Ling Zhao, "Although I am a little self-righteous when I say this, this is your own credit and hard work, I will follow aside, and I will pick up the ready-made bargain." ”

Ling Zhao hurriedly got up: "If it weren't for the support of the concubine, the concubine would not have been able to do all this, it was the concubine who trusted the concubine, and the servants below looked down on the concubine." ”

Shu Shuwaner: "Go, if the emperor refuses it, the empress dowager also refuses it, let's discuss it together." ”

Ling Zhao was noncommittal, and did not dare to answer for a while.

Shu Shu ordered Sange to hand over the fold to Dong Yun to hold, and she reminded: "200,000 taels of silver is not a small amount, but the emperor congratulated his grandmother on her birthday, and 2 million taels were also spent happily, but in our treasury, we can't take out 2 million taels." The emperor said that he knew since he was a child that the court had no money. “

Ling Zhao said helplessly: "Niangniang, 200,000 taels is already the limit, and if you save it, it is better not to hold a shabby birthday banquet." ”

Shu Shu smiled: "You sit down and listen to me slowly." ”

She motioned for Sange to take people away, and then said to Ling Zhao: "You can show the 200,000 account to the emperor, and tell the emperor about the difficulties, and the 200,000 yuan can no longer be allowed." Then I will sum up with the emperor and make another account, I think, at least 500,000. ”

"Half a million?" Ling Zhao exclaimed in surprise and shook his head again and again, "If there is silver, five million concubines can be spent, but the Empress Dowager ...... she"

Shu Shu smiled: "500,000 scared the Queen Mother, and when you press down, you press down and 300,000 in one breath, can she still nod her old man?" ”

Ling Zhao was uneasy: "Niangniang, will the Empress Dowager find out that the concubine deliberately deceived her." ”

Shu Shu smiled: "So ask the emperor first, let the emperor go and deceive the queen mother." ”

Ling Zhao was even more uneasy, what if the emperor thought she was cunning, she didn't confess to the queen, she had to bear it herself, if she confessed the queen, maybe the emperor felt justified, but it became the queen's credit.

When he left Kunning Palace, Ling Zhao was full of entanglement, but after thinking about it, he had to take this step if he wanted the Empress Dowager to accept the celebration of her 60th birthday with peace of mind.

There is no doubt that the birthday banquet costs 200,000 taels of silver, and the Queen Mother must be too much, but if you press it down, this matter is really impossible.

Ling Zhao sighed that he was careful in his calculations, thinking that he had estimated the most suitable amount, but he forgot that no matter how little money he had, it was a "waste" in the eyes of the Queen Mother.

And the queen, who doesn't care about big and small things on weekdays, can think of what others can't think of at critical moments.

"Mother, has the queen rejected it?" Dongyun asked, "Why are you upset?" Did the queen deliberately make things difficult for you, you didn't sleep well for a few nights, did she send it away with a word? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, the queen didn't embarrass me." Ling Zhao sighed, "But she clearly said that she didn't want to rob me of my credit, but it was even more difficult for me." ”

In Kunning Palace, Shu Shu hugged his nursing son to sleep, and while thinking about Fang Cai's affairs, he called Sange and said: "You go and tell Da Lizi, pay attention to the emperor's free time these days, and ask him to send someone to Yikun Palace to spread the word and ask Concubine Zhao if she wants to face the saint." But tell him not to mention it to the emperor for the time being, Concubine Zhao hasn't been sorted out yet. ”

Sanger received the order, went there, returned soon after, and said to Shu Shu: "Gonggong Li said that the emperor plans to serve the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager in the near future, and ask the Empress Dowager to prepare as soon as possible. ”

Shu Shu wondered: "It's neither a death day, nor a big festival, what are you going to do here?" ”

Sange said: "Listen to Gonggong Li's meaning, the emperor wants to go to the first emperor to pay tribute, and he has the prince." ”

Shu Shu hugged his son and shook it gently, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Guess what Pomegranate would say if she was there." ”

Sanger shook his head: "The slave maid just entered the palace, I can't guess." ”

Shu Shu said: "Aunt Pomegranate will definitely say, Your Majesty, are you going to Emperor Yingxian?" ”

Sanger was surprised, but after thinking about it, he asked softly: "Are you saying that the first emperor called the son born to the Empress Xiaoxian the first son, the prince of the emperor?" ”

"yes, I wish I had thought too much." Shu Shu said, "You go and tell Da Lizi, and I will prepare." The Empress Dowager hasn't been out for a long time, and the most important thing is to drive comfortably. ”

On the same day, the Qianqing Palace handed down a decree to serve the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager in mid-April, and to visit the Gyeonggi area and return to the palace in early May.

Suddenly there was an extra thing, Ling Zhao had to follow up again, and her fold was pressed in her hand for three days, and Da Li Zi came to tell her every day when the emperor would be free.

It is not a way to drag it out like this, and four days later, Lingzhao finally decided to come to the Qianqing Palace to ask the emperor to cut it.

Xuan Ye carefully looked at the fold handed by Ling Zhao, line by line, word by word, without missing a single word, and finally raised his head, looked at Ling Zhao and said, "These are all explored by yourself?" ”

Ling Zhao owed: "Yes, in the past few years, I have been handling large and small banquets in the palace, and the concubines are also experienced, but the concubines are still young after all, and the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager is a major event of the country, so I have to ask the emperor to show me." ”

"Imperial ......" Xuan Ye wanted to ask, but the queen had seen it, but when the words came to her lips, she changed it to, "The imperial grandmother must be happy, but 200,000 taels, in the eyes of the imperial grandmother, it must be a luxury and waste." ”

Ling Zhao pursed his lips and asked, "Your Majesty, 200,000 taels is the limit of what can be saved in the palace." ”

Xuan Ye said: "Yes, I look at it and I'm still a little nervous, and I want to promise you 250,000." ”

Ling Zhao settled down and plucked up the courage to say: "So there is one thing, the concubine wants to get the emperor's consent before playing the empress dowager." ”